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Labour Party Lobbies Business;
German Managers Fear Putsch

Updated Jan. 22, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

BRITAIN'S LABOUR PARTY steps up battle for more business votes. The efforts of Britain's opposition Labour party to win the hearts and minds of business chiefs are set to be rewarded this week as a new report on the future of industry backs some of the party's key economic policies. The report, written by the Commission on Public Policy and British Business, will back Labour's minimum wage policy and criticize the government's antipathy toward a European single currency and the EU's social chapter. While the Commission was set up by the left-leaning Institute of Public Policy Research, Deputy Prime Minister Heseltine...